An Analysis of the Nature of Social Communication Performed by Bengali Speaking High-Functioning Autistic Children
Sayeda Asia Akter¹
1 Lecturer, Department of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, Proyash Institute of Special Education and Research (PISER)
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PISER JOURNAL | Volume 1 | Issue 1 | 2024
Abstract
The current study was carried out with the aim of analyzing the skills of Bengali-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder in the field of social communication. 25 picture stimulus identification skills were analyzed by performing an experiment called 'picture stimulus identification skills used in social environment'. The results of this study showed that participating Bengali-speaking high-functioning autistic children were able to make an average of 52.8 percent correct identification of stimuli used in a social environment. This is because the ability to identify stimuli used in social environments depends on many factors. Picture stimulus identification skills used in the social environment largely depend on the extent to which he has the opportunity to learn by seeing, knowing and experiencing various elements of social culture with the help of parents or others or by himself. Most of the parents do not want to take their special child out often due to various negative social attitudes, moreover, since children with autism cannot accept changes in routine, they take certain socio-cultural limits according to the child's preferences. As a result, social images lag behind the opportunity to gain experience by recognizing, knowing and repeatedly viewing stimuli.
Keywords: Autism, High-functioning autistic children, Communication skill, Social communication, Picture stimuli identification.
